Moonlight is a free and open source implementation of [http://silverlight.net/ Silverlight], primarily for Linux and other Unix/X11 based operating systems. Moonlight 1.0 was released on January 20 2009 and Moonlight 2 is currently under development.

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Moonlight is a free and open source implementation of [http://silverlight.net/ Silverlight], primarily for Linux and other Unix/X11 based operating systems. Moonlight 1.0 was released on January 20 2009 and Moonlight 2 was released on December 17, 2009.

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Moonlight is also usable in others browsers aside of Firefox, as a Gtk+ widget.

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== Installation ==

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=Installing Moonlight=

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=== Mozilla Firefox ===

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Moonlight is available in community repository, for installing:

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There are two options for installing Moonlight in Firefox.

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pacman -S moonlight

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If you want to try Moonlight after the installation, visit this web:

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'''Option 1''': Go to the [http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/download.aspx download page] of the Moonlight website and download and install the ''xpi'' file.

# Make sure no page is currently opened inside Chrome that is trying to load Silverlight/Moonlight.

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# Go to the extensions page.

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# Enable 'Developer mode' (top right).

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# Now drag and drop the extension file you downloaded in step 1 to the extensions page.

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# You can now turn off developer mode if you wish.

== Resources ==

== Resources ==

* [http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight Moonlight Project]

* [http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight Moonlight Project]

* [http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/ Get Moonlight]

* [http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/ Get Moonlight]

Revision as of 04:31, 3 December 2012

Moonlight is a free and open source implementation of Silverlight, primarily for Linux and other Unix/X11 based operating systems. Moonlight 1.0 was released on January 20 2009 and Moonlight 2 was released on December 17, 2009.